Ron Cohen
Senior Principal Engineer at Marvell Technology
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Cohen is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Israel with 11+ years of experience building high-performance networking and distributed systems for AI fabrics, telecom and cloud environments. He has led system architecture and productization efforts at Marvell and DriveNets and previously co-founded and served as CTO/technical lead at multiple networking and timing-focused startups, contributing directly to standards such as IEEE-1588. A pragmatic hands-on engineer, Ron also consults and advises startups on blockchain, Lightning Network integrations and scalable SaaS architectures—evidenced by contributions to the widely used lightningnetwork/lnd project improving RPCs, graph management and channel closure behavior. He combines deep protocol and synchronization expertise with product-facing specification skills and a knack for turning research-grade algorithms into production silicon and software. Colleagues rely on him for root-cause analysis, technical vision and bridging R&D with customers and partners.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at The Hebrew University of JerusalemMSc, MSc at Weizmann Institute of Science
Github Skills (11)
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lightning-network10
cryptography10
blockchain10
grpc9
testing9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lightningnetwork/lnd
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 116 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ron contributed to the `lnd` repository by implementing new features and functionalities related to the Lightning Network Daemon. Their work includes adding properties to RPC requests for channel graph management and improving the testing framework with new unit tests focused on database operations. Furthermore, the user enhanced the existing RPC server by adding support for the `IncludeUnannounced` property, modifying the behavior of the `DescribeGraph` method. They also integrated optional delivery addresses for closing channels.
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Bluetegu/lnd
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
Contributions:127 pushes, 13 branches in 11 months
lightning-network
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